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After the conditions for the joint issuance are roughly negotiated, the three companies will jointly invest the initial 12 million yuan for publicity, and the subsequent investment will be determined according to the market prospects.

In other words, if the film has a profit of 1 million, 200,000 will be taken away by the two companies, but the copyright and overseas markets are still in the hands of Firefly.

In fact, this kind of clause is far more beneficial to the producers than the cooperation with the Big Six.

If it is the Big Six, it has long been involved in overseas markets.

Based on the big statistics of Hollywood in 2005, the box office revenue of studios is less than 15% of the total profit. Offline markets such as TV, pay-on-demand, DVD, and authorized development are the places where big money can be made. The Big Six have always asked for this part of the proceeds to be high.

Mubao and Lions Gate are comparable to the six goodnesses, and the conditions that are too excessive are basically not mentioned because they do not have that strength.

The next day, the three issuers formally signed the provisional joint terms.

The contract stipulates that when the three companies have projects that need to be promoted by trial films, they shall convene members to discuss together. Once a joint is needed, the three companies can send personnel to supervise the financial and resource input, and the project will automatically dissolve the cooperation.The share of revenue is subject to negotiation, and the more shall be accounted for.

Of course, an additional provision is that the project provider is automatically regarded as the owner of the copyright of the film and is not included in the joint development clause.

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Firefly Pictures, Chairman's Office.

Lyman hung up the call from Liam and called Joseph in, "Hurry up to urge Warner and Paramount to call the film money. When the cooperation is announced, it won't be so easy to want money."

Joseph was still clear about the joint release, and he was not surprised by Lehman's instructions. "The profit sharing of "Smiths" is not easy to get, but the third fund of "The Water Monster in the Lake" is easy."

The first two are both interested parties, and they are still in the honeymoon period. It is still easy to reach out for money. Once there is an opposition, it is definitely not easy to take. This is something that is clear in my heart.

However, "Smiths" has only been fully painted in less than a month, and the global gross box office is 487 million. Paramount only divided the first profit of less than 30 million to Firefly, and the rest owed at least 130 million. , But it’s troublesome to split from the theater market, and no settlement will be given if there is no painting.

Therefore, Paramount did not deliberately owe it, but rather the financial transactions plus tax formalities.

"As much as you can get back, let's take care of the rest. Anyway, we have signed an agreement, and we are not afraid that they will not give it. If the payment exceeds the time, we will directly send the lawyer's letter."

Joseph nodded and didn't ask any more, immediately went out to notify the dunning.

When he left, Lehman leaned back in his chair, feeling a little more bored at last.

Warner’s treatment is unfair. It can basically be seen that the Big Six’s attitude towards cooperators even if it is a win-win situation, they must be biased towards their own. They say sacrifice and sacrifice, leaving only a little room for Lehman to see clearly that cooperation will always be restricted. already.

Of course, the development of Firefly to this day is considered good. The only difference is the huge amount of capital and market background. Firefly is not like Lionsgate to acquire and expand the company's strength. It can only continue to accumulate power in production.

All in all, take your time.

Who hasn't come up step by step.

Without decades of development, the Big Six was just a small company at the beginning, but not the same as the Firefly.

As for the joint release, Lionsgate used this trick when it acquired the first-line production of Summit Entertainment Promotion. A "Twilight" series completely established the pattern of the first person under the Big Six, and was forced by the Big Six. Way out.

For those studios that can produce good movies but suffer from insufficient resources, they have always been so together to broaden their film prospects.

"Jingle Bell......"

As soon as Joseph left, the phone in Lyman's office rang again.

Lyman picked it up, but it was the agent Johnson called.

"Lyman, I have got the copyright to the novel adaptation of "Twilight" you mentioned."

"It's done well." Hearing this, Lehman became more happy.

In fact, this is just a small matter.

Speaking of it, since taking the copyright of the adaptation of "Prada", Lehman has also discovered that there are still many big hits in the copyright of recent novels. "Twilight" is one of Lehman's collection. of.

Of course, he was not stupid. He didn't clearly say which novel adaptations would be popular. Instead, he asked Johnson to make a list in the library of Random House. Lehman drew down dozens of adaptation projects that needed to be negotiated and packaged them. Naturally, it can be hidden.

After all, many studios are looking for best-selling books on the market and hoarding copyrights. Speaking of which, Firefly ignores this aspect-they value original scripts too much.

In the original time and space, "Twilight" would be favored by Lionsgate and won the adaptation rights, but now with Lehman, the original author Stephanie Meyer has just finished writing "Twilight" for sale, and it continues to sell well. Lehman took a fancy to the top 100 novels.

Speaking of it, the original author Stephanie worked as a full-time wife before writing the book. She had no writing experience at all, but she had nothing to do with fantasies or yy girlish pure love. The result was out of control.

The popularity of the "Twilight" series can only be said that pure love is covered with a background of supernatural power, which makes the old-fashioned dog-blood romance just a little more irritating.

Later, someone commented it well.

"Twilight" has the most clichéd birth and death, full of entanglements and constant blunt conflicts, but it uses a very easy pen to set off the love of girls hidden under the surface.

In other words, without the magic setting, without the vampire and the werewolf, it is a love novel. It can only be said that the author's skill is OK, and he just writes love out of ancient Greek drama-like twists, and fills the market for such works The blank is enough for a generation of young people to see it with a sense of substitution.

And what you want to write is a sense of substitution.

Regardless of yy, it's still rural, and it will succeed if you see it interestingly.

Just as "Twilight" has reached a very extreme romantic style, even deliberately clichés have become a literary tension of love and hatred.

Therefore, as a youth novel, "Twilight" is still very popular with young book fans.

Of course, Stephanie hasn't tasted the flavour of the novel fire. She was just picked up by a studio when she first appeared in the market. She didn't have much preparation in her heart, so she was very happy and sold it for $7 million The adaptation time limit is 5 years, and the follow-up sequel Firefly enjoys the right of first refusal.

At this time, the second "New Moon" has just started, and Johnson also signed in advance, which is still 7 million.

Buying the copyright of the first two chapters of a best-selling novel for 14 million is actually a bit of a bargain. At least the cost of Lionsgate to win the entire copyright is definitely no less than 50 million US dollars.

However, Lehman's market vision is one step ahead. If the novel has not yet become popular, it will naturally cost a lot less. As for whether the original author feels very disadvantaged, it is not Firefly's responsibility.

Do you want to do business? One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and there is no persecution. There is no right to repent of copyright shots.

Otherwise, Marvel has already taken back the authorization of the X-Men series and Spider-Man.

The only thing that makes Lehman a little guilty is whether the previous Lionsgate can rise like that. After all, the market potential of "Twilight" is too high. It has given Lionsgate an absolute market boost and strengthened their release confidence. .

In the original time and space, the project operation with a total series of up to 2.5 billion US dollars is the most powerful company pillar anyway.

Of course, Lehman is not in a hurry to develop this series, because the sales of novels have not reached the peak, and the accumulated fans are definitely not enough.

Waiting for another year, waiting for the book market of the novel itself to develop to a certain extent, and then cooperating with the film to set off a new round of market craze, is the most suitable means of operation.

Warner, Barry Meyer's private office.

In fact, these people can't hide the joint issue. You can find out most of them after a little investigation.

Of course, the firefly's resistance made these vested interests very dissatisfied.

In their opinion, rewarding some meat is already a very peaceful practice, but some people do not accept it.

Soon, Paramount and Warner's financial division of Firefly slowed down instantly.

The cooperation that didn't shirk from the beginning, there were a lot of repeated reasons and excuses-this trick, DreamWorks has also tried.

If there is a problem with the capital chain of a studio, it is bound to hinder the company's development.Very effective means of restriction.